A pottery museum in Cornwall has received more than £3.4m worth of funding to make improvements to its site. St Ives was the home and workplace of acclaimed potter and writer Bernard Leach. The money ...
The 2023 record price for Leach Pottery was for Leach pottery bowl The 2022 record price for Leach Pottery was for A Large Janet Leach Pottery Stoneware Vase The 2021 record price for Leach Pottery ...
A “once-in-a-lifetime” collection of Bernard Leach pottery which had been destined for a charity shop after being found gathering dust in a cupboard has sold for £13,000 at auction. Born in Hong Kong, ...
The Leach Pottery in Cornwall has officially re-opened after undergoing a £1.7m facelift. Bernard Leach set up his pottery in St Ives in 1920 which helped to establish Britain's ceramic art worldwide.
Set a mile or so above the picturesque coastline and crystalline waters of St Ives so beloved of 20th century artists like Hepworth, Nicolson and Nash, the Leach Pottery is considered by many to be ...
'It has been a sign-writing workshop, a knitting factory, all sorts of things. And now it’s going to be a working pottery once more.” Jack Doherty leans over the wet, mushroom-pale pot he has been ...
Born in 1887 in Hong Kong, to a well-to-do family with ties to the judicial system, as well as, the financial sector. Primarily growing up between Kyoto, Japan and Singapore, at age 10 he was sent ...
Think of pottery and the image of Demi Moore being cradled by Patrick Swayze in the hit film Ghost springs to mind. But how did pottery make the transition from being purely functional to being a ...
Leach Pottery Museum has received more than £3m from the National Lottery Heritage Fund A pottery museum in Cornwall has received more than £3.4m worth of funding to make improvements to its site. St ...